Wood cutting service in London?

keithcheuk

Hi,

I recently installed a solid oak worktop for my kitchen and I have some leftover oak solid wood block lying around and I thought I can repurpose them into shelves or something else.

However they are really thick and hard to cut without any power tools. Is there anywhere in London where I can get them cut into sizes I want? I would like to split them into half in terms of thickness as well and I reckon this will require heavy machinery for this kind of cutting.

I could have gone to B&Q and get wooden planks from there but I don't want to waste a few good blocks of solid wood that I already have.

Thank you in advance!

Mr.Generous

When I worked for B&Q warehouses with a timber saw would cut customers own wood and charged 50p per cut. Straight cuts only, its on rails.

Jonesya

Mr.Generous wrote: »

When I worked for B&Q warehouses with a timber saw would cut customers own wood and charged 50p per cut. Straight cuts only, its on rails.

I've used that but only ever for wood or timber sheet I was buying from the store.

I think if you walked in with a load of your own timber bought from somewhere else then you'd get laughed at and shown the door

Op - cutting a worktop into pieces is doable with a rail saw, jig saw or even a heavy router, but I'd forget any ideas of getting it cut through its thickness to make 2 thinner boards.

keithcheuk

Thanks for the replies.

I am getting the feeling that it will be a challenge getting these boards cut at a decent price.

Unfortunately I do not have any power tools and these boards are really hard to cut into. My builder drained 2 batteries just to cut through 2m length of it.

I might just walk into one of the B&Q and ask if they will do it for a fee.

spadoosh

I dont know how much youre wanting to pay but in terms of accessing the tools London is a bit of a uk hotspot for makerspaces, fablabs and the ilk. Places where they might have the relevant tools to do the job you want. A lot of the schemes are based of a membership model but they are generally aimed at being community projects so might be willing to even do it for you for a fee of course.

https://openworkshopnetwork.com/

Is a map of all the 'community workshops' in London.